Limited Edition Book Bundle for Boys

Two of Blue Bowl's favourite Slightly Foxed limited-editions, both gripping biographies from the second world war.

These hand-bound hardback books are a joy to behold so we thought we'd choose our current two favourites that the men in your life would like to read. We offer them as a bundle, ideal for someone just starting out with Slightly Foxed.

Sword of Bone(No. 35)by Anthony Rhodes It’s hard to imagine that anyone who took part in the disaster of Dunkirk could write an amusing book about it. But that is what Anthony Rhodes has done in Sword of Bone, his wry account of the events leading up to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940. By being observant and cool-headed, with an ironic sense of humour, he manages to capture the absurdity as well as the tragedy of what took place.

The Last Enemy (No. 39)by Richard HillaryRichard was a charming, good-looking and rather arrogant young man, fresh from public school and Oxford, when, like many of his friends, he abandoned university to train as a pilot on the outbreak of war in 1939. At the flying training school, meeting men who hadn’t enjoyed the same gilded youth as he had, his view of the world, and of himself, began to change. In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, he shot down five German aircraft and was finally shot down in flames himself, sustaining terrible burns to his face and hands.